Promote Your Next Startup

Free web-resources you may want to use to promote your next startup.

The main advertisement channel is of course people who are in love with your product. Their sharing activities is the best advertisement. Thus, the main idea is to create the product that is useful, usable and attractive to the end users. And only after that it does make sense to spread the word about something you've done.

Post News

Link	About
reddit.com	The front-page of the internet
news.ycombinator.com	Hacker news
lobste.rs	Lobsters
facebook.com	Post news to your niche groups
twitter.com	Of course
slashdot.org	News for nerds
raddle.me	News feed
designernews.co	Designer news
datatau.net	DataTau - Data Science Newsboard
devrant.com	A fun community of developers
sidebar.io	The five best design links, every weekday
changelog.com	News and podcasts for developers
uxdesignweekly.com	The best UX design links each week
css-weekly.com	Weekly e-mail roundup of latest CSS articles, tutorials, and experiments

Create a Product/Tool Page

Link	About
producthunt.com	The best new products in tech
saashub.com	SaaSHub - Software alternatives and reviews
angel.co	Where the world meets startups
alternativeto.net	Crowd-sourced software recommendations
indiehackers.com	Indie Hackers
evernote.design	All in one bookmark links for designer
pagecollective.com	Landing page design inspirations
admiretheweb.com	The very best in the web design inspiration
blog.gaetanpautler.com	Weekly links and websites
fuse.kiwi	Interesting internet
hoverstat.es	The home of alternative web-design
read.cv	Profiles of developers and their projects
alternative.me	Crowd-sourced software recommendations

Post an Article

Link	About
medium.com	Read, write and share stories that matter
linkedin.com	People and companies that are posting and looking for job. Post to your niche groups as well.
dev.to	The DEV community
dzone.com	Programming news, tutorials and tools
scotch.io	Top shelf web-development training
hashnode.com	The Dev community
dou.ua	Ukrainian developers community
muckrack.com	MuckRack for journalist and public relations
techhype.io	News, articles and tools for developers
towardsdatascience.com	Towards Data Science
python.libhunt.com	Awesome Python LibHunt
codementor.io	CodeMentor Community
kdnuggets.com	KDNuggets
morioh.com	Social network for programmers and developers
hackernoon.com	Hacker Noon
blogger.com	Blogging platform
hackr.io	The list of programming classes and tutorials
javascriptkicks.com	JavaScript Kicks
smashingmagazine.com	For web designers and developers
forum.freecodecamp.org	The Free Code Camp Forum
codeproject.com	CodeProject - For those who code
devdojo.com	Dev community

Niche Platforms

Here are some niche blogs which you may use to find your target audience.

Link	About
geeksforgeeks.org	A computer science portal for geeks
codeforces.com	Programming contests platform
kaggle.com	Your home for datascience

Write for News Blog

Link	About
medium.com/dailyjs	Daily JS news
itnext.io	IT blog
alistapart.com	For people who make web-sites
thenextweb.com	Web news
developer-tech.com	Developer tech news
programmableweb.com	APIs, mashups and the Web as a platform
hakin9.com	Blog of IT security magazine
datacamp.com	Data Science Online News
echojs.com	JavaScript News
css-tricks.com	CSS Tricks
daily.dev/blog	Daily Dev Blog

Answer Questions

Link	About
stackoverflow.com	Where developers learn, share and build careers
quora.com	A place to share knowledge and better understand the world

Write on Forums

Link	About
techrepublic.com	Community of IT experts
sitepoint.com	Sitepoint forums

Publish your RSS

Link	About
feedly.com	News aggregator

Write to Dev-Chats

Don't spam!

If you think your project is useful for some specific group of people then find targeted channel, read about channel rules and only then post information to channel.

Link	About
gitter.im	Where developers come to talk

Record a video

Record a demo video of your product, or some learning content and upload it to your YouTube channel. Put the link to the product or to the content to the video description.

Link	About
youtube.com	Video platform

Become Awesome

If you find your project to be related to one of the awesome partitions then just go ahead and create pull request to add your product to the list.

Link	About
github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness	A curated list of awesome awesomeness

Use Advanced Google Search Techniques

Google supports powerful search techniques that may help you to promote your resource.

Find sites linking to competitors

Find sites linking to your competitors and try to add your link to that web-sites as well.

Google’s link: operator was officially deprecated in 2017. But it does still return some results.

It might be a good idea to exclude competitor web-site itself from the search results by using the site: operator to avoid displaying of internal links

Do the following Google search but with you competitor's URL:

link:https://competitor-domain.com/blog -site:competitor-domain.com

You might also want to analyze the backlinks to your competitors using services like ahrefs.com.

Find guest post opportunities

This allows you to find web-sites where you might submit the article about your new project/product/startup.

Pick your niche keyword (i.e. programming) and Google search for guest post related phrases like so:

programming intitle:"write for us" inurl:"write-for-us"

You can also use other phrases like:

contribute to
become a contributor
guest post guidelines
inurl:guest-post
etc.

You can also search for many of these at once:

programming ("write for us" | inurl:"guest-post-guidelines" | inurl:"guest-post")

Or even:

(programming | machine learning) AND ("write for us" | inurl:"guest-post-guidelines")

Find resource page opportunities

Resource pages contains the links to best resources on specific topic.

It might be a good idea to pitch your resource for inclusion.

To find resource pages you might do the following Google search:

programming (intitle:"resources" | inurl:resources)

Or you might narrow it down to:

intitle:programming AND intitle:resources AND inurl:resources

Find more related resource

Once you found a good web-site to place a link to you might want to find similar relevant resources.

To do so just do the following Google search but with the resource you're interested in:

related:https://news.ycombinator.com

Register in Startup Directories

Link	About
betalist.com	Discover and get early access to tomorrow's startup
startuptabs.com	Startup discovery engine
crunchbase.com	Discover innovative companies and the people behind them
geekwire.com	Breaking news in technology in business
f6s.com	Startup founder deals and accelerators
killerstartups.com	Where internet entrepreneurs are the stars
startupbuffer.com	Promote your startup and discover new startups
allstartups.info	All startups info
betapage.co	Community of tech lovers and early adopters
index.co	Connecting startups, corporate brands, and investors
gust.com	Startup funding and investing
startupproject.org	The startup project
springwise.com	Discovering innovation
launchlister.com	See the day's hottest product launches
vator.tv	Voice of the entrepreneur
nextbigwhat.com	Discover great products
iamwire.com	A digital incubator & network for technology ecosystem
snapmunk.com	Technology trends and startup culture
microstartups.co	Discover trending micro-startups today
nibletz.com	The voice of the startups
startupstash.com	Curated resources and tools for startups
alltopstartups.com	All top startups
startupdope.com	Startup Dope
techpluto.com	Platform to showcase innovative startups and tech news
thestartuppitch.com	Come pitch your startup to the world
sideprojectors.com	Marketplace to buy and sell side projects
launchingnext.com	New startups and ideas
startupranking.com	New startups and ideas
awesomeindie.com	Products made by independent makers and creators

Other suggestions

Other collections

submit.co - where to get press coverage for your startup

SubReddits

Use anvaka.github.io/redsim to find relevant/similar subreddits for your niche

Depending on the subject of your post you may use the targeted subreddits:

trekhleb/promote-your-next-startup